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| November 3, 2012
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Senior Israeli defense official: Egypt’s Morsi refuses to talk to us

Amos Gilad described Morsi’s gov’t as a ‘terrible dictatorship.
Israel must safeguard the peace treaty with Egypt ‘at any cost.’

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Senior Israeli defense official Amos Gilad came out against the Muslim Brotherhood leadership in Egypt on Friday, describing it as a “terrible dictatorship,” and saying President Mohammed Morsi’s regime “won’t talk” to Israel.

Supporters of Mohammed Morsi celebrate his election as president of Egypt

Supporters of Mohammed Morsi celebrate his election as president of Egypt, June 2012 – Photo by Reuters

Speaking to students at an event in the Israeli city of Herzliya, Gilad said that “out of a desire for democracy, a terrible dictatorship has arisen” in Egypt, where the Muslim Brotherhood came to power after elections earlier this year. Continue Reading »

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| October 5, 2012
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Israeli-Arab and Hezbollah agent passed intel on Peres’ security detail

Milad Khatib who’s Hezbollah handler is from Denmark, was charged with illegal association, contacting foreign agent, conspiring to aid the enemy during time of war & espionage.

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An Israeli Arab man has been indicted on charges of operating as an agent for Hezbollah. Among the activities he was alleged to have carried out was collecting information on security arrangements for President Shimon Peres during the latter’s visit to an Arab village in the Galilee.

President Shimon Peres was apparently spied on by Majd al-Kurum resident when the former visited the Galilee town in August. – Photo: AP

The indictment against Milad Khatib, 26, a resident of Majd al-Kurum in the Galilee, was filed in the Haifa District Court. Continue Reading »

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| August 1, 2012
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Egyptian spokesman says Morsi’s letter to Peres is a fake

Earlier, Egyptian officials played down a letter apparently sent by President Mohammed Morsi to the Israeli President but now, Morsi’s spokesman denies it. 

Yori Yalon, Daniel Siryoti and The Associated Press

 

Peres advisers say Egyptians denied the letter because it may have been perceived as sign of weakness. Dispute shows disarray in the new fractured Egyptian government.

The alleged letter of good will, sent by Morsi to President Shimon Peres.

 

Hours after the President’s Office announced on Tuesday that President Shimon Peres received a letter of goodwill from his Egyptian counterpart Mohammed Morsi, a spokesman for Morsi sharply rejected the announcement.

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| July 16, 2012
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Sec Clinton to President Peres: Friends like us must work together

US Sec of St meets president in Jerusalem, praising him for “knowing the inextricable link between security & peace.”

 

By GREER FAY CASHMAN, JPOST.COM STAFF

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with President Shimon Peres in Jerusalem on Monday, saying that the transformations which the Middle East is undergoing require “friends like us to think together and act together.”

Arriving in Israel Sunday night for a 24-hour visit, Clinton said that the region was in the midst of a “time of uncertainty, but opportunity.” She posited that the changes in the Middle East have given the US and Israel the chance to advance their shared goals of security, stability and democracy.

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| July 5, 2012
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Former CIA chief urges release of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard

In letter to Wall Street Journal, R. James Woolsey writes: For those hung up on the fact that he’s an American Jew, pretend he’s a Greek- or Korean- or Filipino-American and free him.

 

Convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard must be released, former CIA chief R. James Woolsey wrote in a letter to the editor sent to the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, arguing that one reason Pollard has remained in prison for as long as he has was that he was an American Jew.

Woolsey, who has voiced his support for the release of the convicted spy in the past, wrote in the letter that, while he had “recommended against clemency for Jonathan Pollard early in the first Clinton administration when I was director of Central Intelligence, but now, nearly two decades later, I support his release. Continue Reading »

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| June 24, 2012
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Peres: Israeli patience with rockets wearing thin

Speaking at Jewish Agency Assembly, president says if Hamas continues to endanger civilians, Israel will be forced to retaliate.

 

 

Israel’s patience against rocket attacks was wearing thin, President Shimon Peres implied at the opening of the Jewish Agency Assembly in Jerusalem on Sunday, as he cautioned Hamas against further firing of rockets

As he had at the opening of thePresidential Conference last week, Peres saluted the strength, the courage and the dedication of the residents of southern Israel in coping with the current barrage of rocket fire from Gaza.

President Shimon Peres - Photo: Marc IsraelSellem

President Shimon Peres - Photo: Marc IsraelSellem

“We can stop it and we will stop it,” he said.

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| June 22, 2012
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Netanyahu: Defeating Islamism will Take Decades

“I have no doubt that by the end of the century, militant Islam will be defeated,” says Prime Minister.

By Gil Ronen

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu

 

 

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spelled out his long term vision for the coming century in his speech to the President’s Conference Thursday. In it, he said that militant Islam will be defeated by the end of the century, and that in the intervening decades, the challenge before the free countries is to prevent rogue states from developing weapons of mass destruction.

The text of the speech follows below the video:

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| June 14, 2012
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White House Pours Cold Water on Pollard Release Plea

Ahead of meeting between Obama and Peres on Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney tells reporters, “Our position [on Pollard] has not changed and will not change today” • Peres still asks Obama to give Pollard clemency, expresses optimism.

By Yoni Hirsch, Yori Yalon and Israel Hayom Staff

 

 

The White House’s position on granting clemency to convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard has not changed “and will not change today,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters Wednesday, essentially pouring cold water on any prospects for Pollard’s release after 26 years in a U.S. prison.

Carney’s comments came just a few hours before President Shimon Peres met U.S.

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| June 14, 2012
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Obama: Peres is a True Founding Father

President Obama gives the Medal of Freedom to President Shimon Peres, says Peres “is nothing short of extraordinary.”

By Elad Benari

 

U.S. President Barack Obama gave the Medal of Freedom to Israeli President Shimon Peres in a special ceremony at the White House on Wednesday evening (Washington time).

Obama presents Medal of Freedom to Peres Reuters

Obama presents Medal of Freedom to Peres - Reuters

In remarks he made prior to handing Peres the medal, Obama described Israel as “one of our strongest allies and one of our closest friends.” He said that Peres “is nothing short of extraordinary.”

Obama noted that Peres joined the Haganah Jewish defense organization in 1947, when he was in his 20s, and that he ran for President at the age of 83. Continue Reading »

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| June 13, 2012
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In joint appearance with Peres in Washington, Clinton condemns Syria for using attack helicopters to quash uprising

Secretary of State appeared alongside Israeli President at Washington event; Peres to raise issue of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard in a meeting with President Obama.

 

 

WASHINGTON – Israeli President Shimon Peres and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appeared on Tuesday at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, where they spoke about the escalating violence in Syria, the negotiations with Iran and the peace process with the Palestinians.

At the event, Clinton expressed deep concern over Russia’s reported shipment of attack helicopters to the Syrian regime. “Attack helicopters on the way from Russia to Syria will escalate the conflict quite dramatically,” she said. Continue Reading »

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| June 12, 2012
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Peres Will Ask Obama for Humanitarian Pardon for Pollard

President Shimon Peres will ask President Barack Obama to grant a pardon for Jonathan Pollard on humanitarian grounds.

By Chana Ya’ar

 

President Shimon Peres will ask President Barack Obama to grant a pardon for Jonathan Pollard on humanitarian grounds.

Shimon Peres and Jonathan Pollard

Shimon Peres and Jonathan Pollard - INN archive photo

Pollard, incarcerated for some 27 years on a single charge of passing classified information to an ally (Israel), has been in increasingly poor health. He was hospitalized several times over the past year, including for emergency surgery.

Peres has said he will discuss the issue of a pardon for Pollard with Obama during a private meeting. Continue Reading »

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| June 11, 2012
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Pollard clemency campaign shifts into high gear with Peres visit

Freed soldier Gilad Schalit, Israeli Nobel laureates and intellectuals sign online petition asking President Shimon Peres to use his rapport with U.S. President Barack Obama during this week’s Washington visit to secure Israeli spy’s release • Peres reportedly planning to seek clemency for convicted spy on humanitarian grounds.

 

 

Bt Yori Yalon and Israel Hayom Staff

Some 70,000 Israelis have signed an online petition asking President Shimon Peres to use his upcoming meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama to seek the release of convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard. Peres is traveling to Washington this week to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from the U.S.
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| June 1, 2012
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Former US presidents to honor Peres

Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, Henry Kissinger among those invited to special White House dinner in which Obama will present President Peres with Medal of Freedom

 

WASHINGTON – Former US presidents, state secretaries and a long line of Hollywood stars and business tycoons will take part in a special event to be hosted by President Barack Obama in honor of Shimon Peres.

Peres and George W. Bush (Photo: Ariel Yerusalimsky)

Peres and George W. Bush - Photo: Ariel Yerusalimsky

The White House is set to host a grandiose dinner on June 13 during which Obama will award Peres with the Medal of Freedom.

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| March 28, 2012
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Peres to push Pollard’s release ahead of medal

Thousands sign petition that president should use presidential medal of freedom to press Obama over jailed Israeli agent.

President Shimon Peres said Tuesday that he would do whatever possible to bring about the release of Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard before he receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from US President Barack Obama.

Peres responded to a petition signed by more than 15,000 people calling upon him to take advantage of being granted the medal as an opportunity to push Obama to commute Pollard’s sentence to the more than 26 years of his life sentence he has already served.

“As president, I see it as very important to work determinedly to bring about Jonathan Pollard’s release,” Peres said.”We

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| March 12, 2012
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U.S. high-tech experts descend on Israel to discuss their brave new world

Dozens of high-tech professionals and scientists gathered on Sunday at the Peres Center for Peace in Jaffa for the start of a two-day course by Singularity University.

A team of American high-tech experts arrived in Jaffa on Sunday to discuss their belief that the world is on the threshold of an unprecedented technology revolution that will radically alter our way of life.

Dozens of high-tech professionals and scientists gathered on Sunday at the Peres Center for Peace for the start of a two-day course by Singularity University.

Peres center- Ofer Vaknin-

The university is a three-year-old institution based at the Ames Research Center of NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, in California’s Silicon Valley.

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